April 2009
66 posts
WatchReal Life Twitter - CollegeHumor Video
“Unschooling, by contrast, starts with the realization that you ‘own’ your time,...”
– How to Save the World (via unclasses)
“No matter how great your solution is, the problem be so painful, such that:...”
– Customer Development Gut Checks « Market By Numbers - Brant Cooper
How to make Higher Learning More Agile, Adaptive,...
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(Step 2) Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed. It is possible to imagine a broad range of topics around which such zones of inquiry could be organized:...
“Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which...”
– Mark C. Taylor- End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com
Identity Gateways Will Be Surprisingly Useful
continuations:
If you operate a site or service and want to accept identity from large third parties, you encounter a bewildering array of implementations. Some are fairly proprietary, such as Facebook. Others, such as Google, are based on a standard but with a twist. New ones come along, such as Twitter, and present their own versions. This makes building them all a real resource...
Worms coming to iPhone →
neekolas:
poortaste:
peterwknox:
marco
Excellent. I love Worms and will buy this when it comes out.
My Worms related memories recall lazy weekday afternoons at the house in college, in which to postpone all productivity, epic battles were staged and watched.
Best news of the day
YES!!
I lost a substantial portion of my youth playing worms and would be delighted to lose a substantial...
Times Online: New diplomatic crisis for US over... →
vruz:
The TimesOnline.co.uk
—via retropolitics thought bubble: A “new” diplomatic crisis? With Iran? Jeepers! What a coincidence. /snark
vruz: can Obama keep the warmongers at bay having essentially the same staff that served in security for the last two or three administrations? how is that Israel is getting ready to bomb-bomb bomb-Iran largely with US money, and why ? will we finally...
“So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention...”
– A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works (via hiten)
Rafer sez: There’s no reason that marketing budgets, including social marketing budgets, are inherently a bad idea or unproductive. It requires that competent marketing types apply those budgets to products that some market...
“It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into...”
– Elizabeth Warren (via squashed) (via vruz)
The significance of Obama's decision to release... →
vruz:
by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
Purely as an analytical matter, releasing the OLC memos and advocating against prosecutions are two separate acts. It’s perfectly coherent to praise one and condemn the other. There is an unhealthy tendency to want to make categorical, absolute judgments about the persona of politicians generally and Obama especially (“I like him”/”I don’t like him”; “I...
bsqv:
xraymachine:
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of...
Five rules for getting your ideas off the ground
msg:
Engage in personal projects and things that you love.
Share your ideas and listen to other people’s.
Prioritize your projects so you don’t sabotage yourself by trying to do everything.
Do what makes sense.
Be proactive.
via Nicole Wong via The 99% Conference
“Religion is to spirituality what porn is to sex.”
– Grant Morrison (via grim, thewayoftheworld) (via syntheticpubes)
“The number of successful large scale communities out there is quite small. … So...”
– Noah Brier (via fascinated, betaworks) (via marco)
“These stories are a reminder that our personal wellness is inextricably linked...”
– 1,500 Farmers in India Commit Mass Suicide: A Wake-Up Call for Humanity | Intent.com
“In the 20th century your references were something you put on your resume. In...”
– SAMBA Blog: Is College Obsolete?
“[Fred] Wilson suggests the media universe comes down to a blend of paid media...”
– Image by niallkennedy via Flickr
Earned Media May Be Efficient, but It’s Far from Free
Rafer sez: We also need to discuss the complementary idea of Earned Access. Part and partial of the paid access that Journalism Online will attempt, the significant social sharers need to be compensated for...
“There is no civil rights struggle in the US that matters more to me than the...”
– The Failure of #amazonfail « Clay Shirky (via fred-wilson)
“Metadata is worldview; sorting is a political act.”
– The Failure of #amazonfail « Clay Shirky (via fred-wilson)
“Jounalism Online, LLC has a chance of doing something pretty great, if they...”
– (via rafer with some paraphrasing)
On object lesson in walls « BuzzMachine
Rafer sez:
As rarely as I agree with Jeff “There is so Free Lunch” Jarvis, he’s really on to the right thing here. I’m embarassed that it didn’t occur to me before. Where is the news-specific analytics system that...
“Terry Heaton makes a point I’ve been trying to articulate for years: “The...”
– Direct to Consumer // NoahBrier.com (via rafer)
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and...”
– Dr. Seuss (via jonathanmoore)
“Remember, a person isn’t actually acquired until they have a gratifying...”
– Sean Ellis (via betaworks)
fred-wilson:
Use Somebody (Andre Anjos remix) -...
All of Civilization's Knowledge →
mikehudack:
heyitsnoah:
There’s a great poster over at The Long Now Blog that claims to be all you’ll need to know should you find yourself transported to the far-distant past. Nuggets include: “Germs spread disease and…
“My favorite is Webshots, which was sold to Excite for $82.5 million in 1999,...”
– StumbleUpon, A Case Study In The Efficient Allocation Of Resources (via soxiam) (via aaroneous) (via mikehudack)
“An agile team does release planning to avoid the same type of problems we avoid...”
– Why Do Release Planning? | Mike Cohn’s Blog - Succeeding With Agile®
If the last 100 years was about gaining efficiency and innovation through scale and tight control of resources and communications, the next 100 will be about finding more fluid, open models of collaboration and cooperation. Playing on this new field has different rules. It requires shifting our concept of business from a legalistic model to a social one. Social contracts are very different from...
“Companies with excessive resources rarely deliver the return on new product...”
– Jeff Nolan (via betaworks) (via mikehudack)
The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the...
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world →
Interesting read and feels directionally right.
“It’s never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff. As of now,...”
– David Deida, from The Way of the Superior Man. You can laugh at the title but the book is phenomenal. (via jakelodwick) (via tylerhwillis)
Beautiful. I still think the hard part is figuring out ‘what you want to really do’ - but that could just be me.
“One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can...”
– AlphaTrends
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”...”
– Eben Pagan’s Blog
“With a quality as elusive as cool, there is the temptation to assume that it...”
– The Cool Presidency (via pegobry)(via mandalay)
HOPE.
(via peterwknox)
(via mikehudack)
Watchmsg:
Trent Reznor talking to Kevin Rose on an episode of Digg Dialogg
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If Kevin does more of these, he can take Digg mainstream, or he can just end up being Charlie Rose 2.0. Eitherway, I’m a fan.
Advice for aspiring bands (and entreprenuers):
“Identify what it is you’re trying to do - how do you see yourself? … If you are trying to change the world and you play music...
“(via @howardlindzon) If my only choice of making money was to bet on the market,...”
– Howard Lindzon » Deep Market Thoughts “Fighting Recklessness with Recklessness” (via shepard)
“My quest in life now is to surround myself with smart, innovative people instead...”
– Trent Reznor, in The Underwire from Wired.com (via factoryjoe) (via davemorin)
Watchkortina:
Hello Health, Jay Parkinson on what medicine / primary care should be.
I’ve been digging Hello Health ever since Tyler shared his story of sitting next to Jay on a connecting flight out of SXSW. And Jay is on Tumblr himself. Awesome.
Hey Jay, when does the branch office open up in SF?
“the times they are a-changing fucking dramatically, when pong-twittering with...”
– Amanda Palmer (via newspeedwayboogie)